The Hall of Fame and the Country Music Museum will continue with a medallion ceremony on Sunday, May 1 in Nashville after the news of the death of country music icon Naomi Judd, who was to be introduced as The Judds along with her daughter Winona.
According to a representative of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Wynonna Judd is expected to attend the introductory ceremony.
Kyle Young, executive director of the Hall of Fame and the Museum of Country Music, said in a statement to Billboard that the Judd family had asked for the ceremony to continue in light of Naomi’s death.
“We are shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Naomi Judd, who enters the Country Music Hall of Fame tomorrow as a member of the mother-daughter duo The Judds… Naomi overcame incredible difficulties on her way to an important place in music history. Her triumphant life story overshadows today’s tragic news. Her family asked us to continue with the official introduction of The Judds in the Hall of Fame on Sunday. We will do it with heavy hearts and weighed minds. “The music of Naomi and her daughter Winona will last,” Young said in a statement.
Other candidates include Eddie Byers, Ray Charles and Pete Drake.
Plans for a public red carpet are being canceled.
Earlier on Saturday, Naomi Judd’s daughters, Winona and Ashley, announced their mother’s death in a statement posted on social media.
“Today, we sisters experienced a tragedy. “We lost our beautiful mother to mental illness,” the statement said. “We are broken. We are guided by deep sorrow and we know that as we loved her, she was loved by her audience. We are in unfamiliar territory. “
Naomi Judd was 76 years old.
No memorial plans have been announced yet.
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